Sometime last week I noticed that the number of tweets I had sent was nearing 10,000. I’m not a massive user of Twitter and a lot of those would be to do with the automatic tweets generated by this website. Every communication I write creates three tweets to catch most time-zones around the world. I’ve just over one thousand communications and so that’s around three thousand tweets.
The automatic tweets look similar to this:
A new https://t.co/djGFgCEBYq communication: M’era Luna 2017 – https://t.co/3b64UTxpNF #mera17
— Ian Parish (@iparish) August 17, 2017
Here’s what I wrote when I noticed 10,000 was coming:
I think I need to plan the next few tweets quite carefully. I’m coming up on a total of 10,000. Around 3000 of these have been automated.
— Ian Parish (@iparish) September 16, 2017
While keeping an eye on the count I had a few twitter conversations and was pretty sure I had got through the 104 barrier. I can’t see where in the iOS app there is a count so I had to wait to get to a PC to see how many I had done and count back if necessary. This morning I did that and the count was 10,011. The number on the website said 10k but you can hover and see the real number. So, I counted back and I am so very proud. My ten thousandth tweet was:
Being as plain as I can, Ress-Mogg is a cunt. He has antiquated views which he backs up with “faith”.
— Ian Parish (@iparish) September 21, 2017
When I wrote this I was aware it could be the barrier breaking tweet and my next tweet was:
If that last one was my 10,000 tweet I’ll be ultra pleased!
— Ian Parish (@iparish) September 21, 2017
I am so chuffed. What a brilliant comment to have as a power of ten tweet. In case some of you aren’t sure why I think that, then read this about his comments on gay sex and abortion. You could also read this for his views on foodbanks.
There is a slight controversy here though. I recently requested my twitter archive as I keep a copy for your interest here. Within this there is a csv file which I have looked at and counted the number of rows. It only comes to 9975. So, there’s a discrepancy between my archive and what the twitter website says. I’ll use the website as I don’t think I could have planned my breakthrough tweet much better.